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Synthetic marijuana sold in convenience stores
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Lawmakers propose to make drug illegal
- Duration 1:54
- Date Feb 22, 2012
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In many gas stations and convenience stores you see these packets of insects with names like K two spice dancing monkey and party monkey.
But the -- itself for twenty dollars each are actually laced with the chemicals that make up -- who listen to James and marijuana.
It's synthetic marijuana aimed at teens and young people.
National depression myself OK so it would happen so my back it make my back now allowed as pretty good.
And it's legal and becoming so much of a problem the US senator Charles Schumer has proposed a national ban.
Saying is illegal drugs become harder to find legal alternatives available as -- are the new replacements.
And -- unregulated -- -- potency the chemical compounds found in these products.
Produce intense times.
Which may lead to seizures hallucination high blood pressure rapid heart rate.
And panic attacks according to White Plains police synthetic marijuana is not a problem here yet.
The senator Schumer points out that nationally.
Hospital this is because a synthetic marijuana went on thirteen 2009.
To 6500.
-- 2011.
Across the street from the issue a news conference in this White Plains housing project activists say synthetic marijuana hospitalized.
A pair of high school students.
Two teenagers.
That what the substance.
Had -- today smoked it.
They became suicidal Morgan says the teens bought the synthetic legal marijuana at this gas station a block away.
Yeah but you know the kids are getting sick from.
-- -- yeah.
Senator Schumer says both Democrats and Republicans support this -- of the synthetic marijuana.
But senator Rand Paul a libertarian from Kentucky has blocked the bill argued in a band should be issued by local and state governments not the federal government.
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